Media Sociology – all Bücher, Page 3

Bogna Konior
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet investigates how intelligence-human and artificial-manifests under conditions of secrecy, hostility, and concealment.Departing from Chinese science fiction writer Li…

lieferbar ab 27.1.2026.

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The Spectacle of Online Life

The Spectacle of Online Life offers a groundbreaking exploration of the digital age's most pressing paradoxes: connection and isolation, democratization and control, authenticity and performance.Edited by…

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Alicia Wanless
The Information Animal

Humanity has always craved, and feared, information. Alicia Wanless offers a fresh understanding of the relationship between people, technology and knowledge, today and throughout history.

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Olivier Alexandre
Tech

"Olivier Alexandre is the Alexis de Tocqueville of Silicon Valley. If you want to understand the cultural forces driving the tech world today, read this book."--Fred Turner, author of From Count…

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Rukmini Pande
Understanding Fandom

In this second edition of Understanding Fandom, Rukmini Pande expands on the original scholarship of Mark Duffett to address the shifting landscape of fan studies.In an era in which questions of social id…

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Eric Beecher
The Men Who Killed the News

Readings Best Books of 2024, Non-Fiction Nominated for the 2025 Sperber PrizeNever before has the media played such an active part in our politics, with Elon Musk using X to affect world elections and dir…

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Alfie Bown
Post-Comedy

Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of universal cu…

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Alfie Bown
Post-Comedy

Not so long ago, comedy and laughter were a shared experience of relief, as Freud famously argued. At their best, ribbing, roasting, piss-taking and insulting were the foundation of a kind of universal cu…

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Ella Klik
Negative Media

In a world inundated by an endless proliferation of texts, images, and data, the tension between the human desire to preserve and the economic incentive to retain collides with the finite nature of storag…

lieferbar ab 17.2.2026.

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Ella Klik
Negative Media

In a world inundated by an endless proliferation of texts, images, and data, the tension between the human desire to preserve and the economic incentive to retain collides with the finite nature of storag…

lieferbar ab 17.2.2026.

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Natalia Konradova
Hacking the Iron Curtain

For decades before the internet existed, scientists, technologists, novelists, and enthusiasts of all descriptions dreamed of instantaneous, worldwide communication systems. What forms such systems might …

lieferbar ab 13.1.2026.

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Steven Barnett
Media Ownership, Journalism and Diversity: What's Wrong with Media Monopolies?

Media companies are in the midst of fundamental transformation. The industrial pragmatism needed to survive in 21st century business models, however, collides with the need for diversity of voice in a hea…

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Danny Wallace
Somebody Told Me...

Bestselling author Danny Wallace (Yes Man and Join Me) takes on the modern epidemic of lies, conspiracy theories, and disinformation to find out if truth has a chance in the fight.Have your loved ones bee…

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Planet Digital

In the three decades since the rise of the global internet, digitalization has transformed how media are made, circulated, and consumed -- reshaping culture on a planetary scale. Yet the story of global m…

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Andrea Pinotti
At the Threshold of the Image

"This book invites us to linger on the threshold that both separates and joins the real and the iconic world"--

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Liina-Ly Roos,
The Not-Quite Child

Examines Swedish depictions of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierarchiesFigures like Pippi Longstocking and Greta Thunberg exemplify an ideal mainstream Swedish childhood: t…

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James Craig Holte
Pandemics in American Popular Culture

"This engaging reference book analyzes and contextualizes portrayals of epidemics and pandemics across a wide range of American media"--

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Katherine Anderson Howell
Disability and Fandom

Disability and Fandom examines how key fandom platforms--including cons, Tumblr, Archive of Our Own, Instagram, Reddit, and TikTok--set up user interfaces that may mask their true values, potentially decr…

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Reinventing Journalism Practice, Education and Training

Journalistic objectivity has always been a significant principle at the forefront of the industry, especially now, in times of citizen and participatory reporting. Even in historical times of breaking eve…

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Cara Wallis
Social Media and Ordinary Life

How Chinese citizens use social mediaFocusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnograp…

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